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Show waived. The Utah State Department of Veterans Affairs has advised all of its district service officers to make a concerted drive .between now and May 1, 1948, to advise all disabled veterans of the real property prop-erty tax exemption law. "deadline nears for veteran tax exemption "Unless Utah disabled veterans apply for their real property tax exemption before May 1, 1948, many veterans in the state will waive this exemption," warned Ed. T. O'Brien, director, State Department Depart-ment of Veterans Affairs, today. Under the Utah law disabled veterans with ' a 25 per cent or greater disability and the unmarried unmar-ried widows of deceased veterans, who served in any U. S. War, are entitled to a $3000 real property exemption in proportion to their disability. Mr. O'Brien explained that this application must be presented to the county commission where the property is located before May 1, 1948. In addition to accepting Veterans Administration's Certification Certifi-cation of Disability, the affidavits of doctors are acceptable to prove disability rating. Most disabled veterans receive Veterans Administration certification certifi-cation for tax exemption automatically. auto-matically. In the event these certifications cer-tifications have not been received", all disabled veterans who qualify for the exemption are advised to contact the V. A. immediately and request & certification. Mr. O'Brien advised that many unmarried widows of deceased veterans vet-erans do not realize they, too, are entitled to this exemption, but as in the case of disabled veterans, they are required, by law, to apply for this exemption. If applications applica-tions are not received by the county coun-ty commission by May 1, 1948, the rights under the exemption are |